Time to End Carding
DCI President Agnes Samler, wrote an opinion piece regarding the carding of Toronto’s youth by police officers. Her letter was published in the Reader’s Letter section of the Toronto Star on October 5th. Click here to be directed to the Toronto Star website or scroll below to read the letter in it’s entirety. Devastating, Unacceptable,’ […]
Ashley Smith
Dr. Porter made an astonishing finding in her ruling that the videotapes showing Ashley Smith being forcibly injected with tranquilizers, taunted by professional staff, and strapped to a gurney without food or water cannot be considered essential evidence at the inquiry into the causes of her death. Ashley could still be alive if she had been […]
MANIFESTO FOR YOUTH
The natural agency for the development and training of children and youth is the family. The UN.Convention on the Rights of the Child was a heroic effort to provide a framework for the healthy development of young people in every culture. The present initiatives of the Canadian Government are heretical and unfortunate attempts to re-impose […]
April, 2009 issue of the DCI Juvenile Justice Newsletter
The DCI International Secretariat has released the April, 2009 issue of the Juvenile Justice Newsletter. A copy can be downloaded here: Juvenile Justice Newsletter – April 2009 Issue (April, 2009) ( 1.2 MB / 11 pages) . . Ducove Peta satelit dunia .
DCI Submission to the UN Human Rights Council
. Children’s Rights in Juvenile Justice: Time to Bridge the Gap between Rights and Reality Joint written statement submitted by Defence for Children International (DCI), a non-governmental organisation in special consultative status and the World Organisation against Torture (OMCT), a non-governmental organisation in special consultative status. Defence for Children International Laetitia van Haren, Executive Director […]
